Application Day

By Rabba Nehama Benmosche | Poem

You were born in my heart
A long time ago
I’ll say

I thought about you all the time

I imagined you here
I imagined all of your faces
And all the ways you could have been

I imagined you as a boy
and as a girl
I imagined you coming from me once
I imagined you growing in a love of mine
I imagined you in a hospital
            In a hut
            Outside

I imagined you crying
           And laughing
           And smiling
           And wondering 

Your soul connected to mine
Before we had bodies
Before there was a when
            Or a where
            Or a how 

And I always knew
That when the day was right
When we were ready
That it would be time 

Time for that love
            Born in my heart
            Long ago

To grow bigger than anything I could ever imagine.